Window-well construction



j. T. ALLMAND.

WFNDOW WELL CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.27, 1920.

Patented June 28, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFF-ICE.

JOHN T. ALLMAND, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO FIGHTER BODY CORPORA- TION, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

WINDOW-WELL CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 28, 1921.

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, JOHN T. ALLMAND, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Well Gonstructions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to sashless windows and is especially designed for automobile closed body construction. The so-called sashless window is a window that has a slab of glass that has its side and upper edges free. It is customary to run the side edges of the glass in a felt channel and either continue this channel down in the window pocket or else recess the window post to act as a guide inthe window pocket. Obviously wherethe channel is continued down into the window pocket, it becomes imperative to make the felted channels in two' sections, otherwise the glass cannot be disassembled from the guide. When the channel is made in two sections, the glass does not pass freely over the joint from one section into the other, especially as these two sections are not always in exact register. The glass often catches at the joint and grabs on to the felt and in time tears it.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a window guide in the window well for use in connection with a felted sash which is so designed as to obviate the difficulties already mentioned.

In the drawings,-

Figure 1 is a vertical section of a window and window pocket for a closed body.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of one of the fixtures that is applied to the window post in the window pocket.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig; 2.

Fig. 41 is a section on the line H of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of the block 7' at the bottom of the windowpocket.

a designates the window header; 1) a channel strip or window guide which is preferably covered with felt. The preferred form of channel construction is described in the application of Paul Rissman #401,428 filed August 5, 1920, in which application the invention here to be claimed is disclosed.

The glass must have a guide in the win-.

"by another section of channel or else by recessing the window post in the window pocket. The usual custom is to employ the latter construction. Another section of felted channel is objectionable for the reason that the glass does not always slide freely by the ends of the channel where they are ]O1Il6(l or meet. The recessed window post works all right but it requires a considerable waste oflumber as the post has to be made of additional thickness in order to permit of a recess being cut therein. In fact, the saving 1n lumber made possible by the present invention is about two and one half feet of lumber to a door or window.

In place of these devices and arrangements I employ a palr of fixtures on each window post compr1s1ng each a plate cZ provided with a pair of studs 6, each of which journals the rubber roller f. The rollers are corrugated, or perhaps better described as formed into soft pliable teeth, making them more pliable as the glass slab passes between them. These rollers are spaced the proper distance to allow the passage of the glass between them. The rollers being pliable by reason of the tooth-like peripheries, within given limits these rollers will accommodate themselves to glass of varying thicknesses. Or the rollers may have a spring mounting similar to that shown in Patent $51,311,162, of which I am one of the applicants. In the center of each plate d a recess is punched out and the edges of the recess turned in to form the boss 9 which seats a hollow buffer block it having a flange i which prevents the block from passing through the punched-out opening. This buffer block it is adapted to engage at the sides of the glass slab and cushion the same so as to prevent rattling and also breaking when the glass is thrown from side to side.

At the bottom of the window well is located a buffer block j provided with a V-like opening 71: to guide the glass into the block. Near the bottom of the block is a circular opening Z and between the V-like opening and the circular opening is a pair of points m which arespaced substantially the width of the glass but which are comparatively pliable and yieldable. These serve to lightly press upon the glass to prevent rattling and hold the glass firmly at the bottom.

In order to make these points more pliable so as to accommodate them to glass of varying thicknesses, it will be seen that they are undercut at the rear. The space between the base of the points is greater than the space between the apices of the points, which is nicely illustrated in Fig. 5.

Vhat I claim is:

1. In a window construction, a window post, a guide supported by the .upper or-'- tion of the window post, a pair of ro lers supported by the lower portion of the wlndow post, and a buffer block located between the rollers and at the edge of the window that runs in the guide and between the rollers on the lower portion of the post.

2. In'a window construction, the combination of a window post, a channel guide on the upper portion of the window post, a pair of spaced rollers secured to the lower portion of the window post in the window well. and a buffer block supported between the rollers on the face of the window post and arranged to engage the edge of the window.

3.. In a window construction, the combination of a window post, awindow guide supported upon the upper portion of the window post, and a pair of spaced rollers supported on the lower portion-of the window post, each of the rollers being constructed of rubber and being formed into teeth at their peripheries.

4. In a window construction, the combination of a window post, ,auide supported on the upper portion of t e window post, a pair of spaced rollers supported'on the face of the lower portionof the window post to engage opposite sides of awindow, and a rubber socket member supported at the lower end of the window post to receive the bottom of the window.

5. In a window construction, the combination of a window post, a window guide on the upper portion of the window post, a pair of spaced rollers supported on the face of the lower portion of the window post to engage opposite sides of the window, and a rubber socket member supported at the extreme lower end of the post and comprising a rubber member having a V-like opening forming apair of contact points and having the opening enlarging beyond the contact points and towardthe bottom of the window well. 7

6. In a window construction, the combination of a window post, a. guide on the upper face of the window post,-a pairof rollers supported'on the face ofthe window post at the lower half thereof, and a rubber socket member supported at the bottom of the window having a V-hke opening. orming contact post and com rising a block points which areundercut toward the back of the block.

7. In a window construction, the combination of a window post, a uide supported upon the upper half of t e window post, a pair of rollers supported upon the face of the lower half of the window post and spaced to engage opposite sides of a glass, and a hollow bufier block engaging the face of the window post in between the rollers.

8. In a window construction, the combination of a-wi'ndow post forming apart of a window well, a guide supported on the upper face of the window post, and a plate supported on the face of the window post within the window Welland carrying a pair of studs carrying rubber rollers adapted to engage opposite sides of a window and means for cushioning the Window at its ed es.

In a window construction, the combination of a window post forming a part of a window well, a guide supported on the upper half of the window post, and a plate supported on the lower half of the window post and in the window well, a pair of'studs supported by the plate, rollers supported on the studs adapted to engage opposite sides of the glass that slides between the rollers, and a buffer block supported in a punchedout hole in the plate between the two studs for cushioning the edge of the window.

10. A fixture for use as a window guide, comprising a plate having a punched-out opening at the center, a buffer block supported in said punched-out opening for cushioning the edge of the window, a pair of studs at opposite sides of the window, and rollers of deformable material supported on the studs for engaging opposite sides of the window.

11. A fixture for use as a window guide, comprising a plate, a pair of studs supported in spaced relation upon the plate, and rollers of deformable material supported upon the studs and arranged to engage opposite sides of the window that is guided between them, said rollers having their peripheries formed into teeth.

12. A fixture for use as a window guide, comprising a plate havin a pair of studs riveted thereto, rubber rol ers on said studs,

the said plate being provided with a central punched-out 'ortion between the rollers and a hollow bu er block let in from the back punched-out opening the edge. of the of said platetinto the to act as a cushion window.

In testimony whereof I aflix m si JOHN T. AL

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